Christopher Quotes

The gourney, the big file drawers of the dead, the instruments of dissection - this sure looked like the morgues in the movies. Something had gone seriously wrong while she slept.

Whistler,' Manet called. 'How's your mother?

Chapter 8, Dinner With the Vampire: Is there something wrong with your food?" No, I'm just not very hungry." You're going to break my heart, aren't you?

It's very difficult to stay angry when a room full of bald guys in orange robes start giggling. Buddhism.

I fear you may become a lonely man, even in the company of others.

I like a girl with a substantial bottom,' said Renoir, drawing in the air the size bottom he preferred.

It was sometimes difficult to reconcile a man's talents with his personality.

I'm thinking of being a professional mourner. How hard can it be? Tear at your hair, sing a dirge or two, take the rest of the week off.

And he was like "The sedative in the blood, blah, blah, four hours, blah, blah, nerdspeak, geektalk -" -Abby

Inside, I was like: "Ha, suck my spiky rubber strap-on, vampyre hunter!

It's Christmas! Ah, Christmas, the time when all good people go about not decapitating each other.

It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the dread? And without guilt and dread, who am I?

Charlie Asher: Mrs. Ling, is that duck wearing trousers? Mrs. Ling: Could be . . . . You hear of paper-wrap chicken? This duck in pants.

. . . You seem upset, Charlie. Is something wrong? Charlie: No, no, I’m okay, I just had to take directions from a mute beaver in a fez to get here, it’s unsettling.

I can be most colorful and inventive when I am angry.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.

The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.

Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.

Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.

There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.

Mom-and-pop businesses have the same issues as the Fortune 500. The difference is that big companies spend millions on consultants to fix them.

I've done really well so far in my career by trusting the audience to be as dissatisfied with convention as I am, as a film-goer. You want to go see a film that surprises you in some way.

When you're dealing with the world of dreams, the psyche, and potential of a human mind, there has to be emotional stakes. You have to deal with issues of memory and desire.

To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.

The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to be fed.

If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.

I'm very happy where 3-D is going, which is that it's becoming a choice - and thankfully, most people are still choosing 2-D.

The quality of racing continues to excel with starters increasing to 1496,.

I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.

When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one.

It's not that often that you get to have a large commercial success and then have something that you want to do that you can excite people about.

Isolation of the caretaker role is a real danger. That way lies sadness.

I like the songwriting. I don't ever listen and then go back and change stuff. For me when I wrote the song, it's always really fun and exciting.

I can watch a movie about a person that can make me feel depressed or remind me of something else, and then later on I'll get an idea for a song.

I tend to like to write a song and then think about it for a while. I record a demo of it and then put it away and wait until I've gotten more thoughts on it or get sure exactly how to approach it.

I think music is a spiritual way to communicate transcendental things.

A lot of times, magazines end up presenting me as some type of weirdo, but I make my music for everyday people.

I'm not making any money, but I view it as some sort of investment, or like buying myself a great present.

I wanted a real band. I wanted the Rolling Stones, the Beatles.

I am not who I was, but I know who I am.

In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf.

You cannot learn what you are made of if you rely on anyone or anything else to help you.

Life is pain...anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something

Atra gulai un ilian tauthr ono un atra ono waise skolir fra rauthr. - Let luck and happiness follow you and may you be shielded from misfortune.